Three on a Match (1932) (3 on a Match) (1932)

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7.9	Rating (34 ratings)
7.2	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Starring (View all)

Virginia Davis
Mary Keaton - as a Child

Joan Blondell
Mary Keaton

Anne Shirley
Vivian Revere - as a Child

Ann Dvorak
Vivian Revere

Betty Carse
Ruth Westcott - as a Child

Bette Davis
Ruth Westcott

Warren William
Robert Kirkwood

Lyle Talbot
Michael Loftus

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One of the most provocative Pre-Code films I've seen. Ann Dvorak's intense performance rises to the challenge of a story that approaches adultery, drug abuse, suicide, negligent parenting, blackmail, and gambling addiction with surprising directness, especially for its time. Humphrey Bogart's bit part as a brutish thug makes his later transformation into a romantic lead all the more astonishing.

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Release date: 29 October 1932

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"This fast-moving Warner Bros. production is based on the old superstition that if three people light their cigarettes from the same match it will bring them bad luck. The victims in question are a trio of childhood friends: Mary Keaton (Joan Blondell), Vivian Revere (Ann Dvorak) and Ruth Wescott (Bette Davis). Ann Dvorak has the protagonist role, playing a married society woman with a young child who takes a downward spiral into the world of drug abuse and crime. Her fate is settled in one of t"